Causes of food poisoning

Poor hygiene: Poor hygiene when handling food is one of the leading causes of food contamination leading to infection. The following tips are very useful to avoid it

Choose realiable foods: We must choose foods from a reliable source that have been packaged properly.

Discard those foods from places with poor hygiene, poor packaging, or poorly presented for sale, that's to say, without sufficient protection against external contamination.

Handle your food properly: Proper hygiene involves the proper handling by the consumer. It is important to wash hands with soap and water before handling food and before sitting at the table to eat.

Equally important is a good hygiene and disinfection of eating and cooking utensils to remove any microorganisms.

Wash your vegetables abundantly: It is important to wash vegetables properly to avoid infection. Leaving them a few moments in the water with few drops of bleach or disinfectant could prevent many infections

Incorrect cold chain: Maintaining a suitable temperature from the production, distribution and storage of food is necessary to prevent the growth of microorganisms.

Most bacteria can not grow when the temperature is below 5 º C. They usually develop between 7 and 65 º C)

Thawing food before cooking in some of the earlier steps may be the environment where they develop.

Improper use of heat: Heat is an essential resource to kill microorganisms. (Most bacteria are killed above 74 º C)

Eating raw foods, inadequately cooked or reheated with an insufficient temperature may be responsible for many foodborne illnesses.

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